Im just having a genuinely hard time placing the feeling “anxiety”. The explanations I’ve seen have seemed like very normal behavior like feeling unmotivated about something or nervous of meeting someone.
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Your brain constantly expects that something very dangerous is about to happen, but since nothing is gonna happen, it gets confused and the fear goes into a feedback loop, building up more and more, seemingly endlessly..
In the book I read called “The Flinch”, I liked how the anxiety was explained – our brains are hardwired to seek danger, because in the wilderness, life and death situations were happening on a daily basis. But once the human society evolved to the point that such a dangerous situation is very unlikely, the brain gets pretty confused when it’s expecting something certain, but nothing happens. Dunno, might be bullshit, but it’s pretty rational to me.
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